For my final internship project, I created a video for one of the CIP's clients, Edward Contreras. Originally, I was supposed to do an interview with one of the CIP's exonerated clients but that got pushed back to when I was already in school. However, as I was going into this internship, I had my sights set upon the creation of a video for the CIP website. The reason why I chose Edward Contreras was because I did a play about him for my Humanities class last year. I thought it would be really cool to share Ed's story with people. Before my project, Ed's page was just paragraphs of text and a picture. Now, it has a video to liven things up. My video is even posted on the CIP's Youtube channel! I feel that this video can promote the story of ED Contreras and make people aware that there is an innocent person behind bars.
Before I created the video, I had to film it. I received the gracious help of Alex Simpson, the associative director of the California Innocence Project. Alex had worked on the Ed Contreras case and is still working on it now! Once I got both him and my mentor's permission, we began filming. I came prepared with interview questions for Alex. My mentor helped set up the camera and filmed our interview. When we finished filming the video, it was around 15 minutes long. Next, came the hard part, editing. It was my first time creating a movie and I had no clue what I was doing for the first half. Most of my time working on this project was cutting and storyboarding the video. When I decided on the segments I wanted to keep, I had to cut them even shorter for time purposes. Since I'm jumping from one part of the interview to another part, lots of transitions and title sequences were required. After two days of editing, I finished the video. My final product was around 3 minutes. That meant I had to cut out 12 minutes of footage. Although this project was very time consuming, I enjoyed it very much. I only wish I could have created a video for each of the CIP's clients, but my internship is limited and I wouldn't have the time.
Click here to see the video on the CIP's Youtube Channel.
Click here to see the video on Edward Contreras's Page
Before I created the video, I had to film it. I received the gracious help of Alex Simpson, the associative director of the California Innocence Project. Alex had worked on the Ed Contreras case and is still working on it now! Once I got both him and my mentor's permission, we began filming. I came prepared with interview questions for Alex. My mentor helped set up the camera and filmed our interview. When we finished filming the video, it was around 15 minutes long. Next, came the hard part, editing. It was my first time creating a movie and I had no clue what I was doing for the first half. Most of my time working on this project was cutting and storyboarding the video. When I decided on the segments I wanted to keep, I had to cut them even shorter for time purposes. Since I'm jumping from one part of the interview to another part, lots of transitions and title sequences were required. After two days of editing, I finished the video. My final product was around 3 minutes. That meant I had to cut out 12 minutes of footage. Although this project was very time consuming, I enjoyed it very much. I only wish I could have created a video for each of the CIP's clients, but my internship is limited and I wouldn't have the time.
Click here to see the video on the CIP's Youtube Channel.
Click here to see the video on Edward Contreras's Page